Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Winston Churchill - Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister Documentary" video.

  1. Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda.
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  2. When did that happen? I would ask you for a source, but of course you won't reply as there isn't one.
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  3. Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. Incidentally, when there were 2.5 million Indian volunteers under arms fighting for the allied side, perhaps you might explain why, in your confused thinking, anyone, Churchill or otherwise, wouold have wanted to engineer a famine? You could then explain how Churchill was also responsiblev for the several famines which happened before the British arrived, and then after they had departed? I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda with which you have been indoctrinated.
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  4.  @MarkHarrison733  Odd, then, that 2.5 million Indians volunteered to fight against Japan, Italy, & Germany, isn't it? As the people of Nanking for their appreciation of the sort of 'freedom' the Japanese gave them.
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  5. Idiot. Churchill held no government office between 1929 & September, 1939, when he joined the government of a nation already at war. 'Dockers didnt want to bow crane heads as he went by on barge because he was not for the workers.' Actually, that was an allegation made by a former Docker's Union leader, and was immediately denied by a number of former dockers. The union of Scotland ( population 1 million in 1707) and 'little' England (population 5.5 million at the same time) followed the Glorious Revolution of 1688, when a Scottish Convention met in Edinburgh in April 1689 to agree a new constitutional settlement; during which the Scottish Bishops backed a proposed union in an attempt to preserve Episcopalian control of the kirk. It was actually driven by Scottish politics, not English ambitions. The collapse of the Scottish 'Darien' scheme had largely wrecked the Scottish economy, and 'English Gold' was the only way of bailing Scotland out of the mess. Of course, you wouldn't know any of this, I assume.
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  6. Are you? I would keep that quiet if I were you.
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  7. Australian troops from the Middle East were rapidly returned to Australia. Interestingly, in British ships escorted by British warships. I didn't know that the Japanese ever invaded Australia. Please provide your evidence for this singular allegation.
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  8. Perhaps you haven't heard of the German introduction of unrestricted submarine warfare which was the cause of Lusitania's sinking?
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  9.  @MarkHarrison733  Civilian ships were transporting munitions because Britain & France were at war with Germany & the Hapsburg Empire. Perhaps you were off school the day you class was taught about WW1? Lusitania was carrying a small quantity of small arms ammunition, clearly recorded in her manifest, and authorised by US customs. In point of fact, large liners are not much use for carrying large quantities of cargo. That is why freighters were built. The clue is in the name.
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  10. As did FDR. of course. The reality in 1944-5 was that Stalin didn't need to do any deal with anyone. His troops had taken Eastern Europe by force of arms.
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  11. Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda.
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  12. Didn't he also cause the extinction of the dinosaurs and the spread of the Black Death as well?
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  13.  @briannaghten2201  Correct.He ordered that food distribution be controlled by the Anglo-Indian army.
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  14. France & Britain announced that, in the event of Germany invading Poland, they would declare war. This was a last, unsuccessful, attempt by them to end German military aggression and avert a general European war. No-one ever portrayed Britain as a helpless victim, only as the last European nation in arms against Germany & Italy. Which was correct. Churchill was not involved in the declaration of war in any case, as he did not join the government until after war had been declared.
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  15.  @pedanticradiator  Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India.
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  16.  @morningstararun6278  Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda.
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  17.  @pedanticradiator  Churchill was also rsponsible for the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th Century, Harold Godwinson's defeat in 1066, the Black Death, the defeat of Richard III at Bosworth, the Spanish Inquisition, and the English Civil War. As a child, he was probably Jack the Ripper as well. At least, in the minds of these demented, indoctrinated, half-wits.
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  18. I have a degree of sympathy for people like you, who have been victims of the indoctrination which has superceded education. You have my pity. Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda which has been programmed into you.
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  19.  @MarkHarrison733  Then how do you explain similar famines before the British arrived, and again after they left. The Japanese gave 'India freedom?' Are you in the early stages of dementia? Ask the citizens of Nanking about the kind of freedom the Japanese brought with them. or the Malayian & Burmese slave labourers butchered in many thousands on military projects like the Burma Railway.
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  20. Actually, Churchill ran the war, whilst Attlee & Bevin (not Bevan) ran the country. Churchill was indeed voted out in 1945. How would you explain the events of 1951, then? Indeed, Tory MPs distrusted him in 1940. Largely because the warnings he had given, and they had disregarded, had ben proven correct.
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  21.  @pedanticradiator  Indeed. The thing about neos is that they do rather give themselves away rather quickly.
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  22. No. A small number of indoctrinated people have this opinion of him. Most rational people are able to form a balanced opinion. It is a shame that you cannot.
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  23.  @ivelinadocheva9203  You really shouldn't agree with mad idiots. Not good for your credibility in the normal world. I would ask for actual examples of his genocidal activities or his sociopathy, but I appreciate that the request would be a waste of time.
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  24. How did Chrchill make Europe Communist? Didn't the Red Army have anything to do with that?
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  25. Oh, look! A Professor of Modern History from one of the better Universities speaks!
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  26. The Australian government declared war in September, 1939. There was no British compulsion.
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  27.  @danx836  Go on then. Explain.
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  28.  @danx836  As I rather assumed. You have no answer.
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  29.  @danx836  Sorry, I assumed you had the intellect to be able to defend your statement, but it appears that you haven't. Why should whether I like your response matter in the slightest?
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  30.  @danx836  As you don't seem able to do much beyond posting bile, you haven't wasted much time so far anyway.
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  31. Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda.
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  32. How would you argue that, in a 20th Century industrial war, the man who loads a shell into a gun which is used to kill enemy soldiers is a legitimate target, but the man or woman who made the shell, or the gun, isn't? In such a war, to be blunt about it, there is no such thing as a civilian
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  33. Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda.
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  34. What do you think he did to the people of Calcutta.
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  35. Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda.
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  36. When did he do that?
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  37. Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda.
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  38. How did Churchill start the Cold War? He was not even in government between the end of the European War and 1951. Did he kill off the dinosaurs as well?
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  39.  @NunyaDammeBiznis  No. It simply isn't true.
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  40. Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda.
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  41. Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda.
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  42.  @MarkHarrison733  You must be demented. What soil studies proved that Churchill caused the famine, and how in the name od sanity did he cause the Holocaust? Do your carers know you are still able to work a laptop?
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  43. 1). He was in London for most of the Blitz period. 2). He proposed Gallipoli, as a means of removing the Ottoman Empire from the war, relieving the pressure on Russia's southern flank, and as a strategic alternative to the carnage of the western front. Enver Pasha later said that when the naval assault ceased, Turkey was within days of collapse. Churchill neither authorised the campaign (Asquith did) not planned it. He was simply a convenient scapegoat chosen by Asquith. Astonishing that people still, with all the archives from the period now available prefer a simple and convenient myth.
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  44. Why was he 'satanic' for the colonies?
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  45. Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda.
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  46. Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda with which you have evidently been indoctrinated.
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  47.  @morningstararun6278  Actually, Britain's presence transformed India from a group of endlessly feuding princely states into a powerful modern democracy, and into a major force in the modern world. Sometimes tens of millions of people died because of hunger in a single year. I assume you have a credible source? Would you like a list of the Famines which took place in India before the Raj, or again in recent times after the end of it?
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  48. Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda.
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  49. You should not blame others for your own ignorance.
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  50.  @MarkHarrison733  Just as Volkischer Beobachter or Pravda did?
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  51. Your knowledge, or rather lack of it, is remarkable. Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda.
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